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Summary

Handle any crisis situation with ease with A GUIDE TO CRISIS INTERVENTION! This practical nuts-and-bolts guide provides you with the skills necessary to effectively manage crises. Using the comprehensive ABC model of crisis intervention, this counseling text keeps you up-to-date on the latest information regarding crises. Case examples and scripts that show ?what to actually say? provide you with actual examples of dialogue with the client illustrating the ABC model. Tables that outline key points such as history of crisis intervention, contributions, suicide assessment, and death and dying issues provide you with a framework in which to assess the client.

Table of Contents

Preface

xvii

About the Author

xix

What Is a Crisis?

1

(13)

Crisis Defined

1

(2)

Crisis as Both Danger and Opportunity

3

(1)

Crisis as Opportunity

3

(2)

Crisis as Danger: Becoming a Crisis-Prone Person

5

(1)

Other Factors Determining Danger or Possibility

6

(2)

Precipitating Events

8

(1)

Developmental Crises

8

(1)

Situational Crises

9

(1)

Subjective Distress

9

(2)

Failure of Coping Methods

11

(1)

Key Terms for Study

12

(2)

The History of Crisis Intervention

14

(13)

Contributions from Other Theoretical Modalities

18

(1)

Psychoanalytic Theory

18

(1)

Existential Theory

18

(1)

Humanistic Approach

19

(1)

Cognitive-Behavioral Theories

19

(1)

Family Systems Theory

20

(3)

Brief Therapy

23

(1)

Critical Incident Debriefing

23

(1)

The ABC Model of Crisis Intervention

23

(2)

Key Terms for Study

25

(2)

Ethical and Professional Issues

27

(11)

The Need for Ethics

27

(1)

Use of Paraprofessionals

27

(1)

Self-Awareness and Countertransference

28

(1)

Dual Relationships

29

(1)

Confidentiality

29

(1)

Elder Abuse Reporting Act

30

(1)

Child Abuse Reporting Act

30

(1)

Informed Consent

31

(1)

Supervision and Training

31

(1)

Burnout and Secondary Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

32

(1)

Definitions of Burnout

32

(1)

Symptoms of Burnout

33

(1)

Causes of Burnout

33

(1)

Prevention of Burnout

34

(1)

A Study of Community Crisis Workers

34

(2)

Key Terms for Study

36

(2)

Cultural Sensitivity in Crisis Intervention

38

(31)

Development of Culturally Sensitive Psychotherapists

38

(2)

Latinos

40

(1)

Mexican American Families

41

(1)

Mexican American Cultural Patterns

42

(1)

Issues Related to Different Rates of Acculturation

43

(1)

Comparison of Mainstream Cultural Values and Latino Resistance in the Mental Health Field